In the progress of the division of labour, the employment of the far greater part of those who live by labour, that is, of the great body of the people, comes to be confined to a few very simple operations; frequently to one or two. But the understandings of the greater part of men are necessarily formed by their ordinary employments. The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects, too, are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention, in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.
Ojciec wolnego rynku, lewak i etatysta - Adam Karol Marks, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
The problem is that he originated nothing that was true, and that whatever he originated was wrong (...) Smith took this tack because he rejected the idea of innate differences in natural talents and abilities, which would naturally seek out different specialized occupations. Smith instead took the egalitarian — environmentalist position, still dominant today in neoclassical economics, that all labourers are equal, and therefore
Ojciec wolnego rynku, lewak i etatysta - Adam Karol Marks, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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